The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-05-17
STYLES OF THE DAY.
Helpful Suggestions on . Great Variety or
Interesting Dress Topics.


Interesting Dress Topics.
Apple-green and chestnut-bronze are
the favorities among the many combi-
nations of green and brown.
Mousse-green and heliotrope is an
other of these combinations that are
pretty, as dress with dark heliotrope
velvet skirt and overdress of Havana
brown cashmere.
For wear at the theaters are little
bonnets without strings, with pointed
crowns and made entirely of black
lace, with no other trimming or orna-
ments. The lace of fine sheer quality
and the broad edging is folded into
crisp upright plaits above the face.
Gray grows in favor for carriage and
afternoon costumes. These are usually
of faille franchise combined with velvet
and with soft shirred vests or plastrons
of crepe de chine, either pink or blue.
Some of the more extravagant ones
have trimming of silver and gray
lace around the foot, in a few loops
upon the basque and laid over the cuffs
and revers.
Heliotrope, which includes all shades
of purple from mauve to velvet, is the
rage. Costumes, bonnets, stockings,
corsets and silk underwear are in all
shades of it. Cloth jackets made in
sailor style and du II purple in hue, and
heliotrope gloves have broad stitchings
of purple on the backs. It has even
invaded the province of the masculine
fashions. Full suits of silk underwear
in heliotrope are displayed, and the
scarfs and mufflers show the prevailing
violet hue.
Women who have long Threats have
adopted a pretty fashion of wearing q
wide velvet band about the throat,
edged on each side with. Roman pearls.
This is fastened in front with white
daisy formed wholly of real pearls or
enameled; in the heart of the daisy is
q diamond dew-drop. There is also a
revival of the old fashion, twenty years
dead, of diamond cross or star being
hung around the neck by q thin fiexi-
BILE thread of gold. Massive dog collars
set with gems still hold their place.
Black lace dresses are more pop
ular than ever and are being made in
great numbers for the new season.
Many of these. though very pretty, are
quite inexpensive. The black under
dress. of silk, satin, or stripes of satin
and MORE, is always quite plain, save
for narrow plating at the foot. The
French imitation of Chantiily is the IA
vorite lace, and the favorite pattern has
longitudinal stripes with flower patterns
between; but the Florentine guipure is
its.rival in popularity, and the fish-net
tulle with broad leaf figures upon it is
also much used.
The tailors are making for spring
wear covert coats of dark-green cloth,
with strapped seams, double breast and
turned-over collar covered with velvet
These will be worn late in the season
with any brown, ecru, green or black
dress, or with black lace dresses, and
are even thought suitable for putting
on over wash dresses in the country.
A variation upon this is to have the
jacket single-breasted, with Suede, col
ored, just showing at top and bottom.
The standing collar is of fawn color,
but outside of this is the rolled-over one
of green velvet. These are richly
braided with black tubular braid.
Spring parasols show handles aslong
as alpen-stocks. These handles are
most fashionable with large silver rings
at the end. Full MORE bons, TO match
the parasol In color, are tied at the
handle, and one of narrow ribbon at
the top just below the ferule. The pre-
vailing shape is an improved Maures-
que style, fatter than the canopy tops
of last year. Embroidery on crepe
lisse, especially brown on ecru, in small
flowers, is used as covering over satin,
and there is q gathered and scalloped
4ace border. Black grenadine parasols
are over red and pistache green, with q
frill of lace and light wood handle.
Applique embroidery on creamy-white
null is on dressy parasols for midsum-
mer, and many of white satteen with q
gay border and q vine or scattered
flowers in the center.
Among the lengthy lists of beautiful
all-wool fabrics is pretty white chud-
dah-cloth with fine arrete or herring
bone weave, and pretty way to trim
the basque, sleeves, panels and the bor-
der of drapery is with the soft, fat
white silk braid that comes already
made into open patterns of varying
width, requiring only to be sewed upon
the gown. Another trimming is the
one used to. decorate many light wool
dresses, in color as well, is the rich
white silk cord and silk gimp which ap-
pear this season in every imaginable
device from the simplest narrow Gre
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